Why InfoStar

An experienced team that gets to know your business and stays involved.

InfoStar is a family-owned digital agency serving businesses across the United States since 1993. We create custom websites, provide digital marketing, and build or connect business systems based on what each client needs.

Call or text 916-988-2323.

InfoStar track record

Website, marketing, and custom systems

InfoStar can provide one service or coordinate several.

That could mean a new website, digital marketing, a custom system, or connections between tools your business already uses. We learn how your business works, then explain what we recommend, what it will cost, and how long it should take.

Website

A custom website planned around your audience, services, content, and what visitors need to understand or do.

Website design & development

Digital marketing

SEO, AI search optimization, advertising, social media, and review management help people find your business, understand what you offer, and decide whether to contact you.

Search and visibility services

Custom systems

We can build or connect tools for secure forms, routing inquiries, scheduling appointments, follow-up, and other day-to-day work.

Custom systems & integrations

Tracking and reporting

When a project includes tracking, reports can bring together calls, forms, campaign activity, and available sales information.

ROI tracking & reporting

We can do it all

What InfoStar has built for clients with very different needs.

Ongoing support

The same people get to know your business and continue working on your project.

Your account is not passed from one account manager or team to another. The people who learn your goals, how your business works, and the history of your project remain involved when you need help.

Call or text the people who know your project.

916-988-2323 reaches us directly. Your question goes to someone who already knows that part of your project.

Most routine website edits sent during business hours are completed the same business day.

This means updates to information already on the site, such as staff details, hours, services, or offers. Larger changes take longer; we will explain the price and timing before we begin.

Before we begin, you will know what we are doing, what it costs, and how long we expect it to take.

Your proposal also identifies recurring charges, anything we need from you, and any third-party costs.

Our story

How InfoStar’s services expanded since 1993.

Scroll or use the arrows to view 17 milestones.

  1. Showcase patient-education presentation playing on a television in a dental reception area

    1993

    InfoStar begins with Showcase.

    Greg Sconce founded InfoStar with Showcase, a reception-area presentation that helped dental practices explain treatment, technology, staff, financing, and before-and-after cases.

  2. Early InfoStar website for Christopher B. Gullick, DDS

    2000

    InfoStar puts dental practices online.

    InfoStar built websites for some of the earliest dental practices on the internet, giving them a new way to reach people in their communities.

  3. Mike Johnstone building websites after school while in high school

    2002

    Mike joins InfoStar.

    After Greg saw his grandson building a website at a birthday party, he hired Mike to work on client sites after school. Mike immersed himself in design, code, and how the internet worked.

  4. A dentist using Dental SideKick to explain a single-tooth implant chairside

    2007

    The Dental SideKick brings education chairside.

    Developed with dentists, the multilingual, multi-disc system made it easy to explain treatments and alternatives in the operatory and email information to patients.

  5. Illustration of a 2007-inspired Facebook page for a fictional dental practice, with dental team photos on a walnut surface.

    2007

    InfoStar starts a social media department.

    When Facebook introduced Pages for businesses, InfoStar began creating and managing dental clients' presence on the platform.

  6. Dentist Network Online directory displayed with example dental practice pages

    2008

    Dentist Network Online launches.

    InfoStar created an online dental directory exclusively for its clients, giving patients another way to discover a practice.

  7. Examples of audible dental websites built by InfoStar

    2008

    Audible websites make dental sites more engaging.

    InfoStar's Flash websites paired high-end visuals with spoken service explanations so visitors could quickly understand a practice.

  8. Google search homepage from 2008

    2008

    InfoStar establishes an SEO department.

    Mike turned early search discoveries into a dedicated service that helped dental clients appear on Google, even when their Flash websites could not be crawled.

  9. A dental website from InfoStar

    2010

    Websites adapt to phones and tablets.

    As mobile browsing grew, InfoStar first served separate desktop and mobile sites, then moved to responsive websites that adapt across devices.

  10. Period-inspired iPhone 4 presentation of Chris T. Nhan, DDS’s dentures Facebook post.

    2010

    Social media expands into paid advertising.

    When Facebook introduced paid advertising and sponsored stories, InfoStar paired clients' business pages with campaigns that later expanded to Instagram.

  11. Period-inspired Google AdWords illustration with a sponsored dental search advertisement.

    2010

    Google Ads adds another path to new patients.

    InfoStar began managing pay-per-click campaigns so dental practices could appear immediately for relevant searches, often alongside their organic listings.

  12. Cloud-based Dental SideKick interface showing an implant animation and image library

    2011

    Showcase and SideKick move to the cloud.

    Cloud versions eliminated disc installations, enabled instant updates, and made the tools available on tablets and screens throughout a practice.

  13. InfoStar Times announcement of Greg Sconce and Mike Johnstone becoming business partners

    2015

    Greg and Mike become business partners.

    After years working across InfoStar's departments, Mike partnered with Greg and began learning how to run the company.

  14. Current Google Maps search example showing Central Valley Perio first among the captured top-rated listings.

    2017

    Local search expands into the Google Map Pack.

    InfoStar's SEO work expanded to help clients compete for the three local listings shown beside the map, in addition to traditional organic results.

    Current client example: Central Valley Perio.

  15. Mike Johnstone, president and owner of InfoStar

    2018

    Greg retires and Mike becomes owner.

    Mike became president and owner of InfoStar, carrying forward Greg's customer-first approach as the digital marketing industry grew.

  16. Illustration of Google search alongside ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini.

    2022

    InfoStar begins building for AI search.

    As generative AI grew, InfoStar began applying AI inside the company and helping clients become easier for systems such as Google, ChatGPT, and Claude to understand and recommend.

  17. Mike Johnstone working at the InfoStar studio desk

    Today

    Full steam ahead for every client.

    InfoStar has grown far beyond dental patient education and now builds custom websites, digital marketing, and business systems for organizations across the United States.

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